Combined clothes hanger and window ladder



J. PETYO.

COMBINED CLOTHES HANGER AND WINDOW LADDER.

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1,416,058. Patented Ma 16, 1922.,

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J.PETYO. COMBINED CLOTHES HANGER AND WINDOW LADDER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. I0, 1921- 1 ,416,05 5 Patented May 16,1922.

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JOHN IPETYO, 0F GARY, INDIANA.

COMBINED CLOTHES HANGER AND WINDOW LADDER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patent d 16 1922 Application filed. February 10, 1921. Serial No. M3344. .i

T 0 all who-m it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN Pnrxo, a citizen of CZecho-Slovakia, resicing at Gary, in the county of Lake and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Clothes Hangers and l/Vindow Ladders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in combined clothes hangers or driers and window ladders and has for one of its objects to provide an extension frame swingingly mounted to the upper end-of a window casing with a combined drying structure and ladder detachably connected to the lower end of the extension frame and the lower edge of the window sill.

A further object of the invention is to provide a combined clothes hanger and window ladder wherein an extension frame is swingingly mounted to the window frame with a pull rope attached to the extension frame for retracting the same to an inoperative position adjacent the window.

A still further object of the invention resides in the provision of a combined clothes drying frame and window ladder detachably connected at its inner end to a window sill and at its outer end to an extension member mounted on the window frame, the clothes drier and window ladder being detachable from said extension frame for perpendicular positioning adjacent the build- .ing wall to function as an upright ladder.-

With the above v general objects in View and others that will appear at thenature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel form, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described shown in the accompanying drawings and claimed.

In the drawings, wherein like reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is a front elevational view showing a window frame and a portion of the surrounding building with the device in its operative position for use as a drying frame.

Figure 2 is a side elevational view of the same, 1

Figure 3 is a front elevational view of a window frame similar to Fig. 1 showing the clothes drier and ladder removed from the supporting frame and suspended perpendicularly to function as a ladder,

member for supporting the drying frame, v

and ladder. I Briefly described, the invention ainis to provide a combined clothes drying [frame and ladder associated with the window of a building there being employed an extension.

supporting frame hinged at one of itsends to the upper rail ofa window frame whilean operating rope is connected to a cross bar of the outer extension member, of the frame for adjusting the same. A pair of ropes is attached to the outer ends of the ex-\ tension member and to the building at ;op pos1te sides of the window to limit the outward swinging movement of the extension member. A combined clothes drying frame and ladder has its inner end detachably connected to the sill of the window with the outer end hinged to the outer end of the extension member of the 'supportingframe so that when the extension member is moved inwardly toward the building the drying frame is moved within the'window opening for attaching the'arti'cle thereto to be dried.

The drying frame is detachably connected to the extension member and to the sill ofthe window and may be supported in a suspended perpendicular position by detaching the same from thesupporting frame and window sill and supporting the end of the drying frame, normally engaging the end of the supporting frame, within strap bearings upon the outside wall of the building so it will function as a window ladder.

Referring more in detail to the accompanying drawings, there is illustrated a combined clothes drier and window ladder associated with, a window embodying side frames 1, a sill 2,- anda cross head 3. The extension member for supporting the drying frame is shown more clearly in Figs. 1. to 3 and .5 and includes a pair of side rails l hingedly connected at their upper ends to strap bearings 5' carried by the window cross head 3 and further braced by the upper transverse bar 6. As shown in Figs. 1 and 5, the side rails 4 are longitudinally slotted as at 7 for accommodating an extension framefembod p ing side bars8 connected by a transverse bar 9 having theends thereof mitered as at 10 for engagement with the side bars 8 and retained therein by pins 11. A strap 12 is carried by the outer end of each side rail 4 as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 5 and encloses the side rails 8 of the extension member as indicated at 12, thereby providing a sliding connection between the side rails 4 of the supporting frame and the side rails 8 of the extension member. As a further guide, headed screws 13 freely extend through the rail slots 7 and engage the upper ends of the extension rails 8 to guide the inner ends of said rails during their sliding movement relative to the rails 4. In order to limit the outward movement of the swinging frame the ropes 14 are attached to the building wall as at 15 and to lateral hooks 16 extending outwardly from the outer ends of the extension rails 8: To effect sliding movement of theextension member relative to the side rails 4, a rope 17 is attached at one end as at 18 to the transverse bar 9 of the extension member and passes over a sheave 19 carried by the cross head 3 of the window frame with the free end thereof adapted for attachment to a hook 20 on a side bar 1 of the window frame, this construction being clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

The combined clothes drying frame and ladder structure embodies side bars 21 connected at their inner and outer enyls, by links 22 and 23 having respectively openings 24 and 25 that are adapted to be brought into registry when the links 22 and 23 are alined, a resilient arm 26 being pivotally connected to the end of one of the side rails 21 and carrying a pin 27 at the free end thereof for reception in the alined openings 24 and 25 thus to lock the links in alinement with the side rails 21 extended to their limit of move ment. A rope section 28 traverses back and forth between the side rails 21 and is knotted at each end thereof as at 28, the rope passing through openings 21 in the side rails to provide spaced parallel sections upon which articles to be dried may be suspended. As shown in Figs, 2 and 4, the upper ends of the side rails 21 are provided with clips 29 providing supports for the links 22 and 23, with each clip 29 carrying an outwardly directed pin 30. The outer ends of the extension rails 8 carry socket clips 31 extending transversely of the rails 8' for reception of the pins 30, the pins being positioned therein when the link connections 22 and 28 are partially collapsed as shown in Fig. 4, so that with a subsequent alining movement of the links with the locking spring arm securing the same in alined position, the pins 30 are retained in the tran verse socket clips 31. The connection between the lower ends of the side rails 21 and the sill 2. of the window embodies the pro vision of socket straps 32 having perpendicular sockets for the reception of terminal angle pins 33 hingedly connected as at 34 to the inner ends of the side rails 21.

In the operation of the device when the same is in its operative position as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the drying frame embodying the sine rails 21 is removed from the extension support and the support is moved to a position adjacent the window frame and so retained with the lower ends of the extension rails 8 resting upon the window sill 2. In this position the extension member is moved to an overlying position relative to the side rails 4 and held in such position by the rope 17 attached to the transverse bar 9 of the extension member and to the hook 20 upon the window frame 1. In the use of the device as a clothes drier, the articles to be dried are suspended upon the rope sections 28 between the side rails 21 and the outwardly directed pins 30 are positioned.

in the transverse sockets 31 of the exten sion rails 8 when the links 22 and 23 are partially collapsed as shown in Fig. 4. By moving the links 22 and 23 to alinement and moving the spring arm 26 to position the pin carried thereby for reception in the alined openings 24 and 25 of said links the side rails are distended and the rope section 28 maintained in a taut condition. The rope connection 17 between the extension member and the window frame is released and the drying frame moved outwardly to carry therewith the extension member and for so positioning the end angle pins 33 to allow the same to be inserted in the strap bearings 52 the outward movement thereof being limited by the ropes 14 as, shown in Fig. 2. 1n retracting the extension support the rope 17 may be moved inwardly to shift the extensible member and to place "the drying frame in a substantially horizontal position, and at which time the drying frame may be disconnected from the strap bearings 32 and moved inwardly of the window opening to disconnect the outer ends thereof from the extension member.

When the drying frame is to be employed as a ladder, the side rails 21 are collapsed to the position shown in Fig. 4 and the angle pins 30 inserted in the strap hangers 35 secured to the wall of the building as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the link connection between the side rails being extended to maintain the ladder in the position shown in Fig. 3.

While there is herein shown and described the preferred embodiment of the present invention. it is nevertheless to be understood that minor changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

"What is claimed as new is:-

1. A combined clothes drier and ladder comprising an extensible support hinged at its upper end to a window frame, a rope attached to the extensible support for retracting the same, and a. combined drying frame and ladder detachably connected at its ends to the extensible support and window frame respectively.

2. A combined clothes drier and ladder comprising an extensible support hinged at its upper end to a window frame, a rope attached to the extensible support for retracting the same, a combined drying frame and ladder detachably connected at its ends to the extensible support and window frame respectively, and means carried by the drying frame and ladder for maintaining the same locked to the extensible support and window frame respectively,

3. A combined clothes drier and ladder comprising an extensible support hinged at its upper end to a window frame, a rope attached to the extensible support for retracting the same, a combined drying frame and ladder detaohably connected at its ends to the extensible support and window frame respectively, and means carried by the drying frame and ladder for maintaining the same locked to the extensible support and window frame respectively, said means including link connections between the side rails of the drying frame.

4. A combined clothes drier and ladder comp-rising an extensible support hinged at its upper end to a Window frame, a rope attached to the extensible support for retracting the same, a combined drying frame and ladder detachably connected at its ends to the extensible support and window frame respectively, means carried by the drying frame and ladder for maintaining the same locked to the extensible support and window frame respectively, said means including link connections between the side rails of the drying frame, and means for holding the link connection immovable to retain the drying frame in the extensible support and on the window frame respectively.

5. A combined clothes drier and ladder comprising an extensible support hinged at its upper end to a window frame, a rope for retracting the same, a drying frame and step ladder comprising side rails, a link connection between the opposite ends of the rails, means for holding the link connections in their extended positions, rope sections extending between the side rails, and angle pins carried by the opposite ends of the side rails adapted for removable emgagement with the free ends of the extensible member and window frame.

6. A combined clothes drier and ladder comprising an extensible support hinged at its upper end'to a window frame, a rope for retracting the same, a drying frame and step ladder comprising side rails, a link connection between the opposite ends of the rails, said links having openings therein adapted to be brought into registry, a spring arm carried by one rail and having a pin received in said registered openings to hold the links in their extended positions, an angle pin carried by each end of the rails, and means carried by the extensible support and window frame for detachably receiving said pins.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN PETYO.

Witnesses ANDY AHALY, PAUL MASEsENYIK. 

